Comments by Ted Sickinger| The Oregonian/OregonLive - OregonLive.comtag:profile.oregonlive.com,2015:tsicking/52552012-06-26T20:12:29ZMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceComment on With pension fund investments, private equity pays off for Oregontag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/opinion/index.ssf//3501.210157592012-06-26T20:12:29Z2012-06-26T20:12:29ZThe Treasurer and the head of the OIC wrote this as a response to an article The Oregonian printed on May 19 that looked at the pension fund's private equity investments during the last decade. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/oregon_pers_private_equity_inv.html The Treasurer is certainlytsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Oregon PERS: Unfunded liability of pension funds tightens its grip around Oregon tag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.210065232012-06-25T20:50:11Z2012-06-25T20:50:11ZJazznsax The guaranteed return for Tier One members is the assumed earnings rate, not 8 percent. If they change the assumed earnings rate, that new rate becomes what is guaranteed to Tier One members. Moreover, while there is no earningstsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Oregon PERS: Unfunded liability of pension funds tightens its grip around Oregon tag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.209688462012-06-20T23:35:45Z2012-06-20T23:35:45ZThanks for all the comments here. I've posted a few responses of my own below. If you have suggestions on PERS stories you'd like to see us cover, I'm open to suggestions. You can e-mail me by clicking the linktsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Oregon PERS: Unfunded liability of pension funds tightens its grip around Oregon tag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.209684372012-06-20T22:34:04Z2012-06-20T22:34:04ZMr. Zebrowski, The numbers I used in this story are taken directly from presentations to the PERS Board and discussion with PERS actuary and staff, and various employers. Check out page 17 of this PERS document. http://www.oregon.gov/PERS/docs/general_information/pers_by_the_numbers_4_12.pdf It shows youtsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Oregon PERS: Unfunded liability of pension funds tightens its grip around Oregon tag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.209681222012-06-20T21:57:31Z2012-06-20T21:57:31ZThe Pew study is not an apples-to-apples comparison of the states' funded ratios and shouldn't be viewed as such. Each pension has a different combination of actuarial assumptions that underlie their reported liability, and the study simply used whatever assumptionstsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Oregon Liquefied Natural Gas export terminal proposed near the mouth of the Columbia Rivertag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.201954252012-04-18T17:05:06Z2012-04-18T17:05:06ZZiggy: The 2.3 percent increase is on the wholesale price of gas at the Sumas hub, at the border of BC and Washington. Much of your monthly gas bill is distribution and other overhead costs other than gas. That's whytsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Oregon Public Employees Retirement System list can be searched by nametag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/politics/index.ssf//2769.181720972011-11-29T18:48:08Z2011-11-29T18:48:08ZTed Sickinger here, one of the reporters following this story. PERS officials says they have no contacts reporting incorrect benefit amount or name/benefit mismatches.tsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on PacifiCorp's reliance on coal plants brings utility to expensive juncturetag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.159371572011-06-27T20:36:40Z2011-06-27T20:36:40ZPGE's 2020 Boardman closure is indeed "its plan." The company didn't want to go with the other options that the DEQ laid out and came up with this compromise. It still faces lawsuits and new clean air rules that couldtsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on PacifiCorp's reliance on coal plants brings utility to expensive juncturetag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.159356112011-06-27T19:12:26Z2011-06-27T19:12:26ZTombdragon I'm not condemning PacifiCorp. I was simply pointing out its reliance on coal, and its potential consequences to ratepayers. The company is making the same point to Congress, and its testimony about new clean air rules was what gottsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Climbing PERS expenses face Oregon pension board, agency budget writers tag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.84004062009-11-04T00:39:06Z2009-11-04T00:39:06Zjbartley, If you are a tier one employee - and with 20 years experience you are tier one - you are guaranteed and are getting a return equal to the system's assumed earnings rate, which is currently 8 percent. Yourtsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.comComment on Portland city leaders oppose PGE's future power plan tag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/business/index.ssf//2499.81856922009-10-12T17:22:10Z2009-10-12T17:22:10ZToolatesmart Just thought I'd weigh in here. The facts are that Boardman supplies about 15 percent of the power consumed by PGE customers. The plant supplies a much smaller percentage of all the power used in Oregon. Overall, coal-fired plantstsickinghttp://www.oregonlive.com